Why is XML/XSL so slow when creating HTML code?

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I've been working on converting some of my applications from ASP to XML usingXSL. I've removed the HTML and converted it to XSL as well as the VBScriptwithin the HTML code.It seems that the transformation of the XML through XSL is very slow. Pagesthat blinked up are now taking 3, 4, and 5 seconds to load. This doesn'tseem like a lot but the performance loss is very noticable.Is there any know issues with XSL/XML and it's speed to transform a typicalpage with maybe 10 to 15 textbox and a few combo boxes and maybe a smalltable with 5 or so columns and about 5 rows of data. This doesn't seem tobe a large amount of data, but something is really slowing me down. It wouldseem that I should through out XML/XSL in favor of ASP and global strings.Any comments would be appreciated because I really think I missing something.Any info on the speed of XSL/XML would also be appreciated.Thanks for your help,Greg Rothlander